Scouts at Geek 2013

On March 1, 2013

13 scouts and explorers jumped in the minibus down to Margate for Games Expo East Kent – GEEK 2013.

Hundreds of computer grames from the 70s to right up to the Â latest releases. Pinball machines, arcade cabinets handhelds, educational machines, consoles, mobile, handheld and more. Â It was all there and we had a brilliant day

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Explorer challenge night

By Chris Elmer

On February 27, 2013

In Explorers

Tim was poorly so Phil and Von ran a challenge night for the explorers. (get well soon Tim)

Map symbol quiz

Logic puzzles

Marking by Von (thank you)

Flag quiz

As I left, they were playing a jumping challenge game and before I got there, they’d been knotting and doing something with hula hoops (i’m guessing a hula challenge).

1990 on film

By Chris Elmer

On February 21, 2013

In Group

We’ve done the slides, we’ve done the negatives and we have an archive of over 70,000 photos from our 67 year history at scoutsphotos.com

We’ve started on the films and 1990 is now online . You can subscribe to our youtube channel where we publish all our videos (edited and in full) Â but here are the edited (ish) videos that we’ve done so far.

Summer Camp 1990

[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk22IOeGO_o[/youtube]

Whitsun Camp 1990

[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vYEx2pqYgA[/youtube]

St George’s Day

[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO2Mh8wfy1U[/youtube]

Narrowboating

[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIyUa7iZIBU[/youtube]

District Cross Country

[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY6wsrjm1hY[/youtube]

Thunder Pancake Night

By Chris Elmer

On February 15, 2013

In Scouts

Only a minor burn and no reports of food poisoning yet so a very succesful pancake night for Thunder troop.

Yes, that was an awful lot of food colouring but it did all get eaten!

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Chil Chinese Chow

By Chris Elmer

On February 11, 2013

In Cubs

I popped into the hut and found a kitchen turning out quality Chinese food and all running on child labour. Very happy child labour!

Well done to all of them.

Thunder says ‘gong hei fat choi’

By Chris Elmer

On February 7, 2013

In Scouts

We cooked up a Feast for Chinese New Year. Make sure you get your scouts to cook for you. This came in at less than Â£2/head. Bargain!

[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/59190681[/vimeo]

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Paralympic volleyball

By Chris Elmer

On January 31, 2013

In Scouts

After years of playing crab football in the hut we took some inspiration from The Paralympics and had a go at sitting volleyball and it was a brilliant success.

[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxp3kIvgT_o[/youtube]

We followed it up with a rather chaotic world tradig game that let some of our younger scouts show their leadership skills. If we can turn them into PLs, we should have a fun few years ahead.